Ash-tray.



e. M. DEMAREST.

ASH TRAY.

APPLICATION FILED HAYS. 1914.

1,159,656. Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

WITNESSES INVENTOR GEORGE 1V1. DEMAREST, O'F PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

ASH-TRAY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

Application filed May 8, 1914. Serial No. 837,165.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE M. DEMA- REST, residing at Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, a citizen of the United States, have invented or discovered certain new and useful Improvements in Ash-Trays, of which improvements the following is a specification.

My invention relates to ash trays.

The object in view is to provide such a structure in which ashes, stumps of cigarettes, sticks of burnt matches, etc., may be received in a normally closed chamber where combustion will cease-a device which checks and prevents disagreeable odors; and, further, the object is to provide such a structure of simplest form, that it may be cheaply made and easily cleaned.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, which is a view in vertical section of my improved ash tray.

The ash try will be seen to consist essentially of a funnel member 1 and a conical member 2, supported the one by the other by gravity, the conical member normally closing the throat of the funnel member and forming therewith an annular hopper, in which ashes, etc., are primarily received. The one part may be lifted from the other to open this hopper at the bottom and allow the escape through the opening of the material collected in the hopper. As specifically shown, the funnel'member 1 forms a flange or rim upon the receiving box 3; the throat of the funnel leads directly into this box; and the conical member which normally closes the throat of the funnel, forms the lid of box 3, closing it and the material within it from the air, and the checking combustion and holding fumes and odor from escape.

Preferably the conical member 2 is the member which rests by gravity upon its fellow and is raised to open the hopper. The movement of the two parts may be accurately controlled by proper guides, as, for example a pin 4 extending from the funnel member in the direction of relative movement and into a guide sleeve in the conical member.

The device may be provided with a receptacle 6 for a box of matches, and with cigar rests; but these form no part of my invention.

the inverted cone 9, now upright, will afford a surface for the free discharge of the contents of box 3.

I dwell upon the simplicity of my invention; it will be observed that it is possible to make the article of no more than two parts; that there is nothing to get out of order; and that the parts may be separated and the whole be readily emptied and cleaned. I do not of course limit my invention in its application to a two-part structure; I merely thus emphasize its adaptability. It may be made of any suitable material.

I claim as my invention:

1. An ash-tray including a funnel member and a double convex member normally closing the throat of said funnel member and movable by gravity with respect to said funnel member as the tray is inverted, one of the surfaces of said double convex member cooperating with the funnel surface of said funnel member to form an ash-receiving hopper and the other surface of said double convex member serving as an ashdischarge surface when the tray is inverted.

2. An ash-tray including a funnel member and a double convex member, the latter member movable to and from a position of closure in the throat of said funnel memher; said double convex member provided with an outer convex surface forming with the funnel surface of said funnel member an ash-receiving hopper and with an inner convex surface aflording, when the structure is inverted and the throat of the funifiel member is open an ash-discharge surace.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

GEORGE M. DEMAREST.

Witnesses:

BAYARD I-I. Cmusrr, FRANCIS J. TOMASSON. 

